"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Just a little complicity what's your problem

I was told by Tory MPs, at the height of the Rashford row, that members of the govt were threatening to withhold money from schools in their (deprived) constituencies if they voted to extend free school meals. These practices aren’t new but Will Wragg has shone a light on them.

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) January 20, 2022

William Wragg was on that Tory whips excel spreadsheet with an entirely legal but embarrassing entry iirc - so he might be all out of fucks about it I guess.

indeed, he's no longer bothered about being seen as the golden boy

I think we're back to some May-era Game Theory where the plotters worry that if they go too soon, most of the MPs will have qualms about ejecting him before the Sue Gray report, and then he'll be untouchable for a year. The 1922 committee is "considering" halving it to six months but maybe only because they like talking to newspapers.

I did see the fact earlier that of the 23 MPs who've crossed the floor in the last 30 years, the only two who called a by-election won it - because they were going further out, from Tory to UKIP. Of the other 21, 19 didn't return after the next election (Change UK will have been the bulk of the ones that even contested one) and the other two are Woodward and Alan Howarth ("the first former Conservative MP to sit as a Labour MP since Sir Oswald Mosley") who were both rehoused in safe seats by Blair.

"who were both rehoused in safe seats by Blair"

Alan Howarth and don't forget his butler as well were re-housed in a Liverpool safe-seat!

That was Woodward according to Wikipedia? Howarth got Newport East in Wales. But yeah way to reward the loyal electorate.

abt the diff between blair and corbs in terms of tactics strategy and ethos and now i can't find it

I’m guessing it compared the chess based zugzwang skills of one versus the plodding methodical mastermind coloured pegs skills of the other… but which was which ?

xp

ah right but he did have a Jeeves-a-like butler

Tory turncoat Christian Wakeford is a bundle of nerves as he calls party leader Sir Keir Starmer 'Keir Llama' https://t.co/n7nX2vO0TM

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) January 20, 2022

NEVER FORGET

https://e3.365dm.com/21/08/768x432/skynews-geronimo-alpaca_5470168.jpg

I'm starting to warm to him

No "Kieth" no cred

Kieth Starter, llama harmer

Lol I got the same autocorrect as Bab Phillips did on twitter

William Wragg - who has called on the PM to resign over parties at No 10 - said suspected plotters have been threatened with bad publicity and cuts to constituency funding.
He has advised colleagues who feel threatened to go to the police.
An ex-Tory MP who defected to Labour, Christian Wakeford, also said he was threatened over funding for a school.
Mr Johnson told reporters: "I have seen no evidence (and) heard no evidence."
But asked if he would look into the reports, he replied: "Of course."

Of course…

pic.twitter.com/wJR9qqWqyM

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 21, 2022

has the cunt got a wardrobe full of that suit or is it part of his camouflage system?

it makes him look a bit like one of the old piss-heads from the Zetland st Irish League club in the 80's that would always wear a suit for a good all-day sesh. Or maybe that's more the ruddy complexion!

just some NoRmAL ppl having a laugh

Kieth Stonger wear a new suit challenge

his wife cut them all up!

A wardrobe full of identical blue suits is it

As much a metaphor as &c

god I hate that pic so much, you don't need to be politically engaged to take one look at that posed jollity there and think what a bunch of wankers

He wishes

https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/3/31089/2313016-original.png

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/350a15216875c7d98c094a9233c71dd9e16ffc50/0_75_3500_2101/master/3500..jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=4dace639fd92e3e3d0f9330c96d40d18

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/20/12/33396498-8752613-image-a-56_1600599796827.jpg

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Phoenix's is just so much better, the cut, the colour

ah well at least Kieth's got more than one tie i guess

Corbyn out-dressed, out-styled that dire fucker by miles and he actually looked good in a suit. Kieth doesn't even look comfortable in his own skin, everything looks so laboured and joyless with him.

Well said.

JC looked good in his M&S suits and red ties (or green for Grenfell).

Most people cannot accept facts like this and continue to pretend that JC mostly wore a donkey jacket over an old Aran sweater, unlike professional KS.

Phoenix's is just so much better, the cut, the colour

https://i.imgur.com/Ew7FBh4.jpg

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11617015.ece/ALTERNATES/n615/EMB-GQ.jpg

The pinefox: now that’s what I’m talking about, daddy.

Two very good posts which happily confirm that I am correct about this.

At one point we had British Vogue comparing Jez’ tracksuit style to Demna Gvasalia‘s Balenciaga; Keir would be lucky to be noticed by jeans and sheux Twitter.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A Conservative MP has accused a party whip of telling her she was fired from her ministerial job because her Muslim faith was “making colleagues uncomfortable” https://t.co/5ppNltXtDh

— The Sunday Times (@thesundaytimes) January 22, 2022

Seems less than ideal that the U.K. government has come up with a diversionary natsec bombshell so thin and implausible that even Luke Harding isn’t convinced but nobody in frontline politics can point this out as that’s What Corbyn Would Do.

However four of the five men live in exile in Moscow, making their ties to Russia’s leadership less a matter of subterfuge than public record.

jokes

“You’ve made my evening. The British Foreign Office seems confused,” said former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev, laughing. “It isn’t very logical. I’m banned from Russia. Not only that but money from my father’s firm there has been confiscated.”

No lesson learned by anyone at all in giving Fabricnut this oxygen

Tory Michael Fabricant on LBC rubbishes claims Nus Ghani was sacked for her faith, because: “She’s hardly someone who’s obviously Muslim”

“[Her muslimness] wasn’t apparent, seems a lame excuse she was sacked because of that”

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) January 23, 2022

can't believe gentle loveable classic british eccentric is a racist cunt

The government has apparently briefed Sky that, contrary to the initial impression they gave, the Ukraine coup claims came from US intelligence, not U.K.

so they thought they'd try and pass it off as UK intelligence until they realised nobody with any credibility was actually taking it seriously!

Well, they did headline it "Look! Look! War over there...."

I think ppl should also be aware that as long as electoral politics is the only game in town this is likely to happen.

Very serious people love to criticise the left for “hysteria” over supposed plans to destroy the NHS so it’s worth noting that this is the house newspaper of the establishment calling for an end to free healthcare in the UK https://t.co/kC72HAlt5q pic.twitter.com/gEnVZgjTRB

— wine time fridays (@alexhern) January 24, 2022

Oops

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown in June 2020 despite rules forbidding social gatherings indoors, ITV News has learnt.

Up to 30 staff celebrated in the cabinet room where Carrie Johnson surprised him with a cake, we're told.https://t.co/2IEwZpjHR7

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) January 24, 2022

Pretty sure he's toast now

Much more of this and he'll go full A Few Good Men. He's obviously desperate to say that of course the PM should be allowed to do these things, the rules were rubbish/for little people.

jrm has already started on "the rules were overblown at the time"

The comments from Dorries and others are still emphasising that this was an event happening within a workplace context, which reinforces what we’ve known all along - that The Rules were never really intended to apply past the office / factory / call centre door. I’m not even sure I’d class it as hypocritical. There was never any impetus to make workplaces safe.

Johnson should simply defect to Labour where he will get a photo shaking hands with Kieth and all will be forgiven